Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-11-13

Grand Army button patented by DR.. Rad
zinsky viii be located at NeKeesport, Pa.
The Crescent Fire Brick Co., limited,
Braddock, Pa, has just completed build
ings and placed machinery, and will COM
nsnce operations at once.
The Plasterers' National Union, during
the past year. has increased in membership
more than any other national trades union
in proportion to its size.
The st. Louis Fire Engine Msnufactur-
ing Company, of East st. Louis, has been
incorporated with a capital of $500, 900, to
deal IN and manufacture fire engines.
The st. Charles Car Co, st. Louis, have
closed o contract with the Mexican Cen
! trail railroad for 80 box cars. The CON-
pany has contracts sufficient for all winter.
The Pennsylvania railroad not having
vet made its usual annual contract for
so, coo tons Of rails the manufacturers are
figuring how to counteract 2 further bear
movement in price.
A company with a capital of S75, 600,
for the manufacture of coal mining ma
chinery, has beer organized. and has de-
cided to locate at Mcdonald, near Pitts
burg, provided the citizens, will assist ia
having natural gas piped to that place.
The journeymen BARRIERS will hold a con-
venticn in Buffalo, n. y, on December
9th to form a national union. The basis
of representation will be one delegate for
800 members or less, and two delegates
for any union having more than 300 mem
bers.
A Pittsburg firm IS making a shipment
of fire brick to the Puget Sound Iron Com
pany, at Irondale, Jefferson county, Wash
iugton Territory, for refining a blast fur
mace % feet high. The ores for this fur
mace are from Washington Territory and
British Columbia mines.
The Swindell Construction Company,
Pittshu;E, has been awarded n contract by
the Syracus Tube Company, Of Syracus,
n. Y, to erect for them complete a tube
welding gas furnace, having q working
hearth 20 feet long by 7 feet wide, and also
2 block of four improved gas producers, in
cludiug the necessary conducts, etc.
Union No. SO, Brotherhood OF Carpen-
ters aud Joiners. Los Angeles, CAL, send a
circular 20 carpenters and other mechanics
warning them that Of the numerous meth
obs adopted to boom the Pacific coast there
are rome SO injurious to the w~orkingmen
as the exaggerated reports Of q scarcity Of
labor and high wages.
A syndicate of Eastern men has been
looking tor q sight at Christy Park, in the
gas region, near McKeesport, Pa for the
purpose of building an immense steel
mandatory. The speciality will be rail-
road supplies, freight ana passenger cars,
and from 1000 to 1000 men will be EN-
ployed.
TIE Great Northwestern Manufacturing
and Car Co.'S plant at Saltwater, Mimi,
yves sold on the 9th ult. The property
was knocked down TO Senator Sabin and
the eastern stockholders at 81, los, 900, 10.
The creditors Will he allowed to take the
new stock TO the fail amount Of thei
claims. The plant is valued at s., 800, OJO.
We are glad to say that on our trip
through some OF the Eastern States we
found our organization in a much better
condition tn n we expected 20 fnd 1t, aud
the prospects for the future are very favor
able. The fact that thirty-nine charters
have been granted since our last c0nvcn-
ton in London, Dat, July, 1886, is al
evidence OF its steady grOwth.-hOn
N0llgrS' Journal,
The Continental Steel Car Wheel Com
pany is beiug organized at NOrFistOwn, Pc,
for the manufacture OF rolled steel car
wheels, under patent of Theodore W. Bean.
The manufacture of steel car wheels has
not been attempted a yet, bnt according
10 the statements Of those interested IN this
enterprise the project is entirely feasible.
4 location for the plant has about been de.
cidsd upon.
4 meeting was recently held in Toronto,
Dat, by q number of local consumers OF
finished ir0n and othees interested in the
ron ,c&le mo propose 10 establish rolling
mills there. The city will give a long
lease - nominal rent of any land pos.
sessed Gy the corporation for the purpose of
estahli hing the mills. The total cost Of
e~rectiI2 mills with capacity to produce 90
tons OF finished steel per day will be about
sos, $40. Tue project is in thp hands of q
comni:;rc.
Elk I,untaiR Pilot, Crested Butte, Col,
SAYS: The Colorado Coal and Iron Co. are
now ba;lding and have almost completed
a line OF railroad to their valuable coal
property up Rock Creek, and intend to 10.
cate a hundred o7ens on ground owned by
them odjaceat to Carbonate township,
and it is an assured fact that a syndicate
of capitalists are soou to locate extensive
steel works and blast furnaces, having
purchased forty acres of hnd north of the
town for that purpose. These works, it Is
said, will cost not less than 5000, COO.